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Show K CHINA'S DOORS OPEN FOR UNITED STATES i WASHINGTON. Sept. 24. Anxious to , i have as little to do with Japan as pos-i pos-i i sible in any way, China. Is making spe-P spe-P s rial efforts to give her former Japanese j trade to the I"niled States. Kven now in Washington the bureau of foreign and - domestic commerce and rcuresentulives of VNna unofficial. It is true are working he same end. So far as the Chinese v concerned, the move is guarded with t4 ecreny. The huge empire Is unwilling .i'1' openly to antagonize Nippon, at whose ( hands she has already suffered. r' But the sending of Chinese representa-4 representa-4 tives to (Jils country this summer to nego-I nego-I tlate for a resumption of American trade lias been followed up consistently. In the spring of 1915 Chinesa shippers boycotted all Japanese goods" and vessels. Chinese trade leaped to American sliip-, sliip-, pers. In September, 1915. (he American r consul at Hongkong reported that Ameri-I Ameri-I , can goods and American shipping con4 I cerns were leading all other nations In I business done in Chinese markets. American trade decreased with the rev- Y olutions in China in the autumn of 1915. J The British blockade had a marked ef-jfc. ef-jfc. fTt, too. Conditions grew worse. When Yuan Shi Kai died American trade in China was nil. But China's doors are opening wider and wider for this country now. The. Pacific Mail Steamship company's purchase of three vessels for trans-Pacific .trade is looked on with greatest optimism by the department of commerce. |